Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Germany wants swift progress on EU banking union

BERLIN: Germany wants to push ahead with a European banking union, a finance ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, possibly in two stages as EU treaty change would be required to create a Europe-wide banking resolution authority.


Martin Kotthaus told a regular government news conference that Germany hoped to complete talks on setting up a European resolution mechanism by the summer break and much could be achieved on the basis of existing EU agreements.

"For a new central (banking resolution) authority, we would need treaty change because there is no enabling power for such an authority," said Kotthaus.

"It must be completely watertight."

indiatimes.com

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